Mental Health Professionals, Clinician Services

This is a Pre-solicitation Notice announcement ONLY. This Pre-solicitation Notice is being posted to the Government-wide Point of Entry (GPE) website, (SAM.gov) in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) 5.204, Pre-solicitation notices. This pre-solicitation notice is prepared in accordance with FAR 5.207(a).

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service, Property and Procurement Services (PPS), Incident Procurement Operations (IPO) intends to issue a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for Mental Health Professionals, Clinician Services in support of the National Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) program. Subject to the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Part 12, Acquisition of Commercial Products and Commercial Services, and the Simplified Acquisition Procedures set forth in FAR Part 13. The Resultant contracts, if any, will be multiple Blanket Purchase Agreements with a period of performance for a base year and four option years.

1) Description of Services: Mental Health Professionals, Critical Incident Stress Management
2) Proposed Solicitation Number: 1202SC25Q2900
3) The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Code: 621330 – Office of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians), Small business size standard of $9M.
4) Product or Service Code: Q519 – Medical – Psychiatry
5) The Government anticipates issuing this solicitation as a 100% SMALL BUSINESS SET ASIDE.
6) Tentative Date for issuing pending Request for Quote (RFQ): March 7, 2025. All solicitation documents for this procurement will be provided free of charge through the GPE website.
7) The technical point of contact is Wendy Mortier, wendy.mortier@usda.gov
8) Contracting Officer: Lindsey Christian, lindsey.christian@usda.gov  

FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES: USDA Forest Service requires that all Contractors doing business with this acquisition office must be registered with the System for Award Management (SAM). An award cannot be made unless the Contractor is registered in SAM. For additional information, and to register in SAM, please access the following website: https://www.sam.gov/SAM.

Notice to Quoters: No response to this announcement is required or requested. The Government will not pay for any information submitted in response to this announcement. The solicitation subsequent to this announcement may be cancelled at any time without warning. After solicitation, and prior to award, all offers may be rejected if in the best interest of the Government or the public. This announcement does not obligate the Government to pay for any offer and or quotation preparation costs.